Wow, 2 of mine get 600,000 and 400,000 /week respectively.

Sad part is, the 600k one has been down for a few months. I should really bring it back.

if only I had a way to monetize it so I can afford to bring it back. Any ideas?

Maybe you can add a small temporary "donation round" message using the MiniMessages object, linked to a page of yours? Or you link to "related gadgets" page of yours via a MiniMessage, and include AdSense on this related page.
http://www.google.com/apis/gadgets/ui.html#Mini

Of course, MiniMessages might become annoying if over-used :)

:Cough:

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/02/how-popular-are-google-gadgets.html

Heh. We think alike :)
Since I'm back I'm half-way through the emails and haven't yet started catching up with the forum or blogs, by the way.

Nope. So nobody noticed. Maybe I used a wrong title or stupid wording.

There's a way to see the no of page views for almost ANY gadget from the directory (not just for the universal gadgets).

Hmm. It won't show numbers for my Multi Search 2 module.
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open&source=gpvl&num=24&url=http://blogoscoped.com/homepage/multi-search-2.xml

It does show numbers for Multi Search 1 though:
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open&source=gpvl&num=24&url=http://blogoscoped.com/homepage/multi-search.xml

Multi Search 2 is not included in the directory (or so it seems):
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?url=http://blogoscoped.com/homepage/multi-search-2.xml

I've also noticed that the search quality is very poor (for example, my feed is not included in the results for [google operating system] and is on #27 for [google os]).

That's a good idea. Maybe if I can sell small ads in mini messages for my free text message one... then I can afford the bandwith to bring the thing back!

I put a mini message with a new feature in my slang translator one and got a lot of visitors to the page I promoted... so it has potential.

I like the mini message idea Phillip,

My modules are bigger than i thought, maybe i need to update them then.
Comic 638k
Shakespearean Insult 404k
Google Phone Number 265k
UPS Tracker 237k
Imageshack 226k
TotallyFreeCrap 161k
Minesweeper 26k
Six Degrees Wikipedia 34k
Google Video 37k
Flash Games 63k
Stop Watch 33k
Falling Sand 25k
The rest are under 10k

Total approx: 2,149k or 2.1 Million

[Moved from "gadget stat's" – Tony]

Google served up over 700 million gadget views last week, including over 400 million gadget views (57%) from its top 10 gadgets..

http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2007/03/google-gadgets-statistics.html